Court Culture in the Early Middle Ages: The Proceedings of the First Alcuin Conference

by Catherine Cubitt (Editor)

Overview

The role of the court in early medieval polities has long been recognised as an essential force in the running of the kingdom. The court was not only an organ of central government but a sociological community with its own ideology and culture, and a place where royal power was both displayed and negotiated. The studies within this volume reflect the diversity of modern court studies, considering the court as a social body and considering its educative and ideological activities. The contributors to this volume bring together historical, archaeological, art historical and literary approaches to the topic as they consider aspects of court life in England, Francia, Rome, and Byzantium from the eighth to the tenth centuries. The volume therefore looks at court life in the round, emphasizes and invites connections between early medieval courts, and opens new perspectives for the understanding of early medieval courts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782503511641
Publisher:	Brepols Publishers
Publication date:	10/13/2003
Series:	Studies in the Early Middle Ages Series , #3
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	9.60(w) x 6.50(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction - Catherine Cubitt Unsettled at Aachen: Alcuin between Frankfurt and Tours - Donald A. Bullough Was Charlemagne's Court a Courtly Society? - Janet L. Nelson 'A Place of Discipline': Carolingian Courts and Aristocratic Youth - Matthew Innes Mathematics at Charlemagne's Court and Its Transmission - Paul L. Butzer and Karl W. Butzer The Illustrated Manuscript of the Visio Baronti [Revelatio Baronti] in St Petersburg (Russian National Library, cod. Oct.v.I.5) - Lawrence Nees Carolingian Royal Palaces: The State of Research from an Architectural Historian's Viewpoint - Uwe Lobbedey Anglo-Saxon Courts - James Campbell Wrestling with Hercules: King Alfred and the Classical Past - Susan Irvine Persuasion and Invention at the Court of King Alfred the Great - David Pratt Papal Court Culture during the Pontificate of Zacharias (ad 741-52) - John Osborne Beyond the De Ceremoniis - Rosemary Morris The Byzantine Court and Byzantine Art - Lyn Rodley